Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-10-20
CHAPTER l..
DEEPER THAN EVER.

Listen to me Mrs. Grey | am
grieved that you should be so bitterly
distressed" said the duchess; what is
more, | will not distress you any fur
ther Let me tell you why we are so
anxious to know in what manner YOU
have possession of the 10 ket. You have
heard me speak of my beautiful and
gentle Young mother, who died so trag-
ical death. My father, Lord Stair,
had two lockets made, they were exact
ly alike in every detail, d they were
both set in diamonds; my father gave
one to my mother and one to me.
"Wait one moment" said Mrs Grey.
as she laid her hand on the duchess's
arm.
The memory of it overpowered her;
she turned sick and faint at heart No
wonder that low cry comes from her
lips as she begs the duchess to go en-.
GAS 1 was saying" resumed the
duchess, my mother took my locket
for me and put it away; she wrote on
the paper, as YOU have heard, For my
daughter Ethel when she is old enough
to know her fathers face That locket
| have cherished above every other
worldly possessions; it was stolen from
me with the rest of my jewels, and it
has been returned to me with them. My
mother, so my father tells me, often
wore her locket; he remembers seeing
the diamonds shining on her neck The
strangest thing is, that my aunt, Lady
Hottie, who lived with us then, declares
that my mother wore that chain and
locket on the night she left home for
that fatal journey to London. How
you are trembling, Mrs. Grey
1t was the very pallor and weakness
of death that seemed to come over her.
81 W II not say any more, it dis
tresses you," said the duchess.
al pray you 60 on" was the answer.
Better to know the whole truth at
once-to know if they were on the
track of the secret or n
The question is this. | my mother
left home with that locket on her neck,
how does it come into your possession
more than seventeen years afterwardP
That is the mystery which puzzles us
it not only puzzles us, tut makes us I'M
happy. If you could have seen the
passion of longing, and love. and pain
that came into my fathers face when
we were trying to understand it
Gradually, as the duchess spoke
Mrs. trey had risen from her knees.
and the dignity of a great sorrow fell
over her-the WEAKNESS and despair
loft her face. AS at the time of her
trial, light and radiance came over it
that did not seem 10 be of this world at
all,
''You see now Mrs. Grey, of what
vital importance it is to us to know
how my mothers locket the one she
had on her neck when she died came
into your hands You can understand
that out of respec' for my dear mother s
memory, we are most DESTROYS to un-
derstand it, My father says that moth
ing was ever seen of the locket and
chain at the time of the accident, al
though my mothers watch ard chain
were found upon her.
Again the prison walls faded away,
and she was in the darkened tunnel a
thousand voicet 'rying Lady stair is
dead ! ady StaI is deadr
TO DE CONTINUED.
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The crop of hops W II be smaller
than usual this season. Now we come
to think about II, there was an extra
ordinary demand for frogs legs this
year. Vintage OF '63.)- Buffalo Er-
press.
II some of the men would VICAR bar
rel for bathing suit the monotony OF
the beach would be relieved aud only
the deformities of the eriremitics would
be on exhibition. Ma tha's Vineyard
Herald
III the warm weather had continued
. little longer the proprietor of the
sum.mer-resort hotel woul have worn
diamonds next year--a luxury until
now enjoyed only by the clerk. Balls.
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